I'm re-reading "Women, Fire and
I'm re-reading "Women, Fire and Dangerous Things", and came across this discussion on Re: Basic Level Categories. Linguistics is one of the most interesting fields around - I'm also trying to follow a linguistics course my girlfriend is taking, and it already changed many of my preconceptions. (Such as that of a dialect not being as valuable as the official language somehow.)
As for basic level categories, I'm sure the insights gained from the research around categories can be useful for information architects.
Yum. Slideshow on categorisation at Berkerly. Berkeley teacher papers. Finding the Flow in Web Search. (pdf)
# Oct 4, 2002